<p>I had completely forgotten about livejournal.</p>
<p>I think it can be said that a lot of people that absolutely refuse to get facebook are generally a little weird, different, or just trying to feel “superior” but I think it’s even more obnoxious when people are constantly on their smartphones texting s**t on facebook and posting pictures of themselves pretending to have a good time to make people jealous.
They might look and be popular on facebook but there’s a point where it backfires. People that come to hang out with me and my friends that are glued to their phones and computers annoy the hell out of us and nobody in real life wants to hang out with them.</p>
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<p>Dude, if you’re taking AP Bio it means you’re still in high school. This is the college life forum. I’m not saying you can’t post here, but don’t say stuff like “uh…not many people check their e-mail frequently” if you’re still in high school. I, too, rarely checked my email back then. Now I have Thunderbird running constantly and I check my mail ~5 times a day or so. I get between 7-10 emails a day. The majority are important and school related, while a couple are personal. Email is exponentially more important in college than high school.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re a Christian (which I am), Facebook offers problems I don’t want to deal with.</p>
<p>And with your logic of Facebook causing you to remember to do your homework; that was the worst backwards logic I’ve ever seen. Today, I looked at the chair in my apartment, and remembered I need to study and practice drawing the chair conformations of hexane. Therefore, my chair is incredibly important in making me do my homework…right? Get real.</p>
<p>Oh man. Livejournal. I had one in high school. Deleted it. And decided to create another account in college. It’s kind of funny looking back at my past two years. I post almost everyday now! It’s like therapy for me :)</p>
<p>In regards to facebook, I heard this girl in the cafeteria line the other day talking about how her roommate is weird. The guy asked why and she stated: “She doesn’t even have a FACEBOOK!!!” Didn’t realize that Facebook is this mandatory thing now … kind of like email =</p>
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<p>Well you probably sit in it while you do your homework, so maybe the chair really is important.</p>
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Also, if you’re a Christian (which I am), Facebook offers problems I don’t want to deal with."</p>
<p>what</p>
<p>Jesus hates Facebook.</p>
<p>^ Logically. </p>
<p>Actually, Jesus may have quite liked facebook. Woulda made that whole “go out and preach to all nations” thing a lot easier…</p>
<p>Nah, I don’t do homework in that chair. Too comfy and I tend to fall asleep.</p>
<p>And there’s issues of gossip, obviously. Every time I hang out with my sister and her friends, they talk on and on about so-and-so’s facebook status. Then there are the problems with lust. I know a lot of attractive women, and there are quite a few skanky pictures on facebook. Also, I don’t want to judge someone just on how I know them on facebook. Social networks like that w/ status updates tend to push people one way or the other; either you love someone’s online persona, or you hate everything they say/post. I don’t think it’s fair to let myself judge someone that way. Those are the problems that I, as a Christian, have with facebook.</p>
<p>And Jesus favored discipleship over preaching to the masses. The kind of discipleship formed by, you know, face to face personal relationships. So your point is void.</p>
<p>Fair enough, I was curious as to how it would be incompatible with some folks’ beliefs.</p>
<p>@bauman- You took what I said way too seriously. But I assume that means you dislike televangelists?</p>
<p>Haha sorry, I didn’t mean to. It’s just hard to tell how serious people are online at times, especially when I haven’t really posted on this forum for like 2 years. But televangelists? I guess I don’t have an opinion since I haven’t ever really watched one. I know a lot twist the Bible in contorted ways. But I wasn’t saying Jesus didn’t approve of or participate in mass evangelism; he did plenty in fact. I was just saying the main focus of his ministry focused in discipleship.</p>
<p>What is my impression of someone who says he/she doesn’t use/have a facebook?</p>
<p>“Hey dude, do you have a facebook?”</p>
<p>My impression: “No dude.”</p>
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I will never ever never understand the point of having a twitter, unless you’re a D-list celebrity trying to promote yourself in some way.
Lol isn’t that exactly what twitter is for though? seriously, i can understand if you don’t like facebook, whatever, but to spew about how facebook is anti-christian and gush about twitter instead strikes me as really funny. They’re practically the same stupid thing except one is more popular and focused on commenting on other people’s pages, and one is about “following” people who like to post where they are and what they do constantly.</p>
<p>*Edit - except Facebook is really getting dumber with some of its new features, like the “Questions” feature which is annoying the F out of me. It’s called google folks, use it.</p>
<p>How can you judge twitter without ever using it? I’ve used facebook for two years, so I definitely know its highlights and downfalls.</p>
<p>With Twitter, you can follow who you choose. I actually use Twitter to HELP increase my faith in God. I follow a bunch of biblically sound dudes like Lecrae, Trip Lee, John Piper, Eric Mason, etc… who post links to articles and videos and stories that help me become a stronger believer. I rarely tweet myself. It’s more like an RSS feed for me than a social network.</p>
<p>And I didn’t say facebook was anti-Christian. But the ways people have used it, and the effects in can have on me both were reasons enough for me to delete mine.</p>
<p>I like Twitter. The main people following me are people actually somewhat interested in the minutiae of my life. I post mini-rants on there that would annoy the people I’m friends with on Facebook.</p>
<p>And yes it’s very nice for following things like food trucks.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to bash twitter, I’m just saying it’s kind of silly to put down facebook as anti-christian and support another social network which is practically the same thing, except a vainer version of facebook. You might not be vain in your use of twitter, but it seems to me more people are (of course many are with facebook too). </p>
<p>What annoys me most about FB is the constant “status updates” and I feel like that’s what Twitter is - a stream of constant updates about the daily boring crap in a person’s life. To each his own, I guess. </p>
<p>I never had a fb in high school because it was useless (all my friends went to school with me and I saw them everyday). I made one in college so I could keep in touch with all my friends and old classmates who are now scattered around the country, share pictures, etc. Also college clubs often advertise events and fundraisers on fb so that makes it easy to keep up.</p>
<p>@Alix2012 - Did you read my last post at all?</p>
<p>The ones who consciously decide to avoid having a profile on Facebook just for the sole purpose of going against the grain are profoundly annoying to me. But those who choose to keep their personal lives more private/would rather not be distracted from academics/are sincerely indifferent on having one? I can understand that.</p>
<p>I usually just go on to post pictures of delicious foods I’m eating to make my friends jealous, or peruse through my news feed to laugh at the cocky kids from high school who got knocked up and are pretending to enjoy life as young parents, or the ones who had shotgun weddings and then divorced months later. Good source of entertainment.</p>
<p>On a more serious note, do you guys think Facebook will ever die the way MySpace did? Makes me wonder what some of the shortcomings were of the latter that made everyone instantly flock to FB.</p>
<p>Yes it will go the way of MySpace eventually, I think.</p>